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Contents
ARIANNA BOVE, ANNALISA MURGIA AND EMILIANA ARMANO
PART I
Subjectivities: a cartography of experiences
FRANCO BARCHIESI
BRANDON SOMMER
EMILIANA ARMANO AND ANNALISA MURGIA
MARIE-CHRISTINE BUREAU AND ANTONELLA CORSANI
IVOR SOUTHWOOD
GEORGE MORGAN AND JULIAN WOOD
MANOS SPYRIDAKIS
JOANNE RICHARDSON
STEFFI RICHTER
PART II
Resistance: social movements against precariousness
DIMITRIS PAPADOPOULOS
ALEX FOTI
VALERIA GRAZIANO
MARIBEL CASAS-CORTS AND SEBASTIAN COBARRUBIAS
PART III
Conceptual outlooks
ANDREW ROSS
ISABELL LOREY
ANGELA MITROPOULOS
Emiliana Armano has a PhD in Labour Studies at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, State University of Milan. Her research focuses on the intertwining of work processes and production of subjectivity in the context of informational capitalism with a social enquiry and co-research methodological approach. She has published several essays, recently (with Annalisa Murgia) Le reti del lavoro gratuito. Spazi urbani e nuove soggettivit (2016) and (with Federico Chicchi, Eran Fisher, Elisabetta Risi) Boundaries and Measurements of Emerging Work. Gratuity, Precariousness and Processes of Subjectivity in the Age of Digital Production (2014).
Franco Barchiesi is an Associate Professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University, a non-resident Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University, and an International Visiting Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His latest book, Precarious Liberation: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa, is the recipient of the 2012 C.L.R. James Prize from the Working Class Studies Association. He is also a senior editor of International Labor and Working Class History and a co-editor of Rethinking the Labor Movement in the New South Africa (2003). Barchiesis current research is focused on how liberal ideas, processes of state formation, and labour regimes shaped the racialization of the Atlantic world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Arianna Bove is a Lecturer in Politics and Ethics at Queen Mary, University of London.
Marie-Christine Bureau is a sociologist at the Lise-UMR 3320 CNRS-CNAM. She works on the local implementation of public policies, but also on work changes and new forms of autonomous work. Recent publications include: Un salariat au del du salariat? [Labour institutions beyond salaried employment?] (in collaboration with Antonella Corsani, PUN, 2012) and Reconfigurations de ltat social en pratique [Reconfigurations of the Welfare state in practice] (in collaboration with Ivan Sainsaulieu, Presses Universitaires Septentrion, 2011).
Maribel Casas-Corts, PhD in Cultural Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is writing a monograph on social movements in Europe dealing with precarity. She has been actively participating in and reflecting upon precarity struggles in the contexts of the university, early public education, migration and emigration. Previous writing on precarity movements include: A genealogy of precarity: A toolbox for re-articulating fragmented social realities in and out of the workplace, in Rethinking Marxism (2014).
Sebastian Cobarrubias is Assistant Professor at the Department of Global, International and Area Studies at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. Based on his activist participation in the Counter Cartographies Collective (3Cs), he has contributed with writings such as Drifting through the knowledge machine, in Stevphen Shukaitis et al. (eds), Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations and Collective Theorization (AK Press, 2007). Together with companion and co-author Maribel Casas-Cortes, he is currently working on processes of borders outsourcing and precarity.
Antonella Corsani is Associate Professor at the University Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne, and a member of IDHES UMR 8533. She works on neoliberalism, work changes and transformations of the wage relation. Recent publications include: Un salariat au del du salariat? [Labour institutions beyond salaried employment?] (in collaboration with Marie-Christine Bureau, PUN, 2012).
Alex Foti created the Milano May Day Parade centred around young precarious workers and contributed to spread the EuroMayDay Network in 20012010, which put precarity and precarious labour on the political map. He co-wrote ChainWorkers (2001) and authored Anarchy in the EU (2009). He writes frequently on social movements and European politics after the Great Recession on Nettime. His current affiliation is with the Lige-based collective Precarious United.
Valeria Graziano is a cultural theorist, practitioner and educator whose research is mainly concerned with inventing post-work alternatives. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Middlesex University. Her background is in visual culture and critical organization studies. Her PhD (Queen Mary, 2015) looked at different notions used to conceptualize the pleasure of being in common, such as sociability and conviviality. Her postdoctoral research project considers the role of prefigurative practices and of imaginal procedures within the organizational lives of collectives. Valeria has been active within a number of militant research initiatives, including the Micropolitics Research Group and the Carrot Workers Collective.